Freestyle Gardening

Freestyle Gardening

Update: The Freestyle Gardening Movement kicked off in summer 2014 but the movement is still in full force and we are still happy to cover your seeds to help you spread free food in your city! We also plan to do another tour, perhaps 2016. For now just start planting and make food free! Read on for more…

We are looking for an intern / volunteer who’d like to help lead the movement. You’d be sending out free seed packets, helping people with gardening questions, and doing some social media. Get in touch at [email protected] if you want to grow the change you wish to see!

We’re spreading food gardens all over America and making food free, the way it used to be: naturally from the Earth. We’re planting fruits, veggies, herbs, and wildflowers in and around your city, giving out free seeds, and funding community gardens. This is a grassroots movement that involves you! Come plant with us or reach out to us for free seeds or garden support in your area.

The Freestyle Gardening Movement- “Putting free food everywhere”

We are on a mission to make food simple, free, and growing everywhere – in the cities and the countryside, at our homes and in our schools, in vacant lots and on open rooftops, down the streets and up the walls. And once that fresh, healthy food is grown we want it to end up in your mouth! Freestyle gardening is free of boundaries, business, and budgets. Growing your own food and sharing with others puts the power back where it belongs, in your hands. Quite simply the Freestyle Gardening movement is going to put free and healthy food everywhere!

We kicked off the movement in summer 2014 with a grassroots coast-to-coast tour. Rob Greenfield cycled across America on his bamboo bicycle planting seeds along the way and Michael Scalli created gardens and planted seeds in select cities on the tour. We created community gardens, planted wildflowers, freestyle planted fruit and veggie seeds, and gave away funds to help others take action. But that was only the beginning and are here to support you!

We want you to plant something! Here’s how you can get involved!

Plant on your own– If you want to grow food now your seeds are on us! Get vegetable seeds to grow for yourself and your community, or wildflowers to help the bees. Just plant some stuff!

Start a Freestyle Garden– A Freestyle Garden is a place where food is free, healthy, organic, and sustainably grown. Freestyle Gardens create a culture that is less dependent on money and the industrial agriculture system that is currently harming our people, animals, and natural resources. These gardens use recycled materials and are lead by resourceful people wanting to be a part of positive change in America. They can be at homes, schools, public spaces, businesses, basically anywhere that food will grow. Sharing with everyone is a must with a Freestyle Garden!

We want to help you grow food and we’re going to give you the information, inspiration, and money to do so. Get in touch with us to plant with us or on your own. Email [email protected] to get started!

You Guys are Fabulous!!! Thank you for having the ability to see the need to educate people about growing their own food, about living within their means, about turning the TV off, talking to their neighbour, exchanging food, communicating, making a friend and producing living nutritious food that will make them feel wonderful. For our part it is not about asking you to come to us it is about doing it in our back yard and front yard and paying it forward.

Hello, I think that you are starting something that will be totally awesome for everyone. Please consider sending me the seeds I would need to start my home garden. My available planting area us an acre. I wish y'all where headed to Dallas so I could participate physically with your project. Thank you for helping humanity. Laurel Bailey

Y'all are coming to El Paso in June and I would love to be a part of what y'all are doing here!! There's hardly any organic food here and no one seems to care. I want to raise awareness in GMO free and organic food to the city. I have a passion for helping others and your mission has sparked a drive in me to make a difference for change in my community.

As we are all scattered about the Country with many of the same goals this action comes as such Good News. By connecting in many ways we strengthen what each of us is doing individually or in small groups.
Thank you for all you do.
Peace and Abundance~Grammy's Potager

I am so impressed with your project and ideas – so glad I found this article, your website, and your other social media sites. You are going through my city and I can't wait to see what your plans are when the time gets closer! Hopefully I can participate!

This is an amazing project! It would be great for you guys to come visit some of the Hudson area towns in new York. I'm in Hastings and could use the help in our community garden! Gd luck during your travels.

How about Palm Beach County Florida. I don't see the Southeast on your list. Love the movement would love to join in. We have a lot of farmers markets and green markets here this would be even more awesome.

you can get seeds anywhere especially your local feed store or nursery!! eat local support local the movement is awesome for those city people !!! but truly just dirt and a seed is all u need can get anywhere and do anywhere living organic GMO free

Lisa Ann Deloury Yes, anyone can do this with dirt and seeds (getting seeds from a local nursery is a great suggestion, thanks), but having the tour physically in town would have a great rippling effect on the community. Hopefully they can fit it into their already busy schedule.

Yes, anyone can do this with dirt and seeds (getting seeds from a local nursery is a great suggestion, thanks), but having the tour physically in the central CA valley would have a great rippling effect on the community. Hopefully you can see fit to drop by.

We are trying to get more edible gardens in school yards. It's hard for kids to get real food these days and so many parents are uneducated. These gardens give the kids an opportunity to eat real food all summer. It's a start!

Love this idea and my husband and I would love to participate, but we are in Washington State. Sending seeds would be fantastic as we live in a 55 plus community and could easily share the harvest locally.

Fantastic! We need to take control of what is overly abundant crap they call food that is full of harmful chemicals and said to be healthy and natural. This is a great way to make healthier food available for free! Doesn't get better than that. Together we can help these great guys and their vision for a better life for us all. Help out where you can. If they aren't coming near you than do what you can to get started in your community.

Hi Shari! This was actually a 2014 tour, but it just got shared around the net like crazy right now. I hope to do the tour again, possibly in 2016. Much love to you! I am in Milwaukee every year though so stay tuned!

Hi Kristen! This was actually a 2014 tour, but it just got shared around the net like crazy right now. However I am happy to support your newly inspired mission. Email [email protected] and we'll help you!

Please come to my house in Southern Utah and teach me. I have never had a garden and i know nothing about growning my own food. I am building a house that should be finished hopefully in August or September. I want to live a better life but need help. Please come to my house and show me how to have a garden and help me build a sustainable one that will grow in southern utah. thanks

Way to go guys! Your project has so many benefits and I really believe you are showing the way to the future. I live in western Europe where i am happy to say that local,organic food can be bought a few steps away (or in my own garden.)

Is there a tour for 2015 — I'd like to learn more to get involved – I live in a condo and attempted pot planting on my patio. Di didn't harvest very much but it was my first run at it – the more I learn the more I can contribute — anyone or anything in the Silicon Valley area of California

I'm assuming your seeds are organic? How do I get some? I don't have anywhere to grow them right now, but my neighbor does. She would love some to grow some citrus trees and veggies. Also, how do we keep the possums away?

Awesome! I founded The Seed Trust to get free seed out to low income families in my area. We helped 134 families with a 12 vegetable garden this Spring. Located in northeastern KY tristate area. Count us in, we're planting and planning on doing it again next year!

Thanks for all that you've done. This is such a wonderful, neighborly idea on so many levels. I could go on and on, but I won't. If you ever come down to Atlanta, I would love to help out. Started an organic garden this year and have plenty of seed to share. Anyone want some Korean Squash seed?

We are in the 4th year of a severe drought here I'm redding CA. Good ideas here but in Redding with high temps and dry air we have to nurture our plants. and we have not convinced the majority to not plant GMO seeds yet. do not spread their seed freely by planting and letting it go to seed plz

We are in the 4th year of a severe drought here I'm redding CA. Good ideas here but in Redding with high temps and dry air we have to nurture our plants. and we have not convinced the majority to not plant GMO seeds yet. do not spread their seed freely by planting and letting it go to seed plz

My husband and I dug up our front yard and created an urban garden in Seattle. We planted fruit trees and vegetables, and we continued to have flowers for the bees. Our next adventure is chickens and eventually bees. Someday we hope to afford solar so our little home will be completely self-sustaining 🙂 Great work guys. I am going to email you for some wildflowers…I love wildflowers and to see what I can do to help with the movement here in Seattle. Thank you for all you are doing and take care!!

I Am a Bit disabled , but i have close to two acres here in Lake Helen Florida. [email protected] , I Would need help to get it started but would love to Share what ever we grow with the community. I Am paying a lot of yearly taxes and I would like to get info about this. I already have some grapefruit trees that have Fruit to share. But I just had knee replacement and can't walk to well yet. Geez ,I don't even have a lawn Mower anymore, such a beautiful Mayberry Town. But some body had stolen my lawn Mower when I 1st bought the house. And I Haven't been able to replace it with a new one yet. My husband borrows one from a relative to do the front and the inside back fenced yard. Looking forward to hearing from you. Michelle Rios.